Financial Planning Lead

Role Overview: As a Financial Planning Lead, you will be responsible for driving financial planning and forecasting processes. You will collaborate closely with the CFO, Head of FP&A, and senior leadership to translate business strategies into financial outcomes using data-driven approaches. Your main focus will be to manage and develop the team responsible for budget and forecast cycles, with an emphasis on accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement through technology and automation. Key Responsibilities: - Drive the end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and longer-range planning processes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and clear articulation of assumptions and drivers - Partner with Finance Leadership to support ad hoc and strategic analysis, scenario modeling, and key deliverables that inform business decisions and external communications - Build strong relationships with business units and functional finance teams to understand needs, ensure data accuracy, and deliver relevant insights to support decision-making - Act as a liaison with Headquarters in Tokyo, providing timely reporting, clear communication, and responses to inquiries to ensure alignment on performance, strategy, and priorities - Manage, develop, and coach the planning team to ensure delivery of high-quality outputs efficiently and build strong technical, analytical, and business partnering capabilities - Support strategic initiatives with robust financial analysis - Own FP&A applications in your scope, with close collaboration with the IT function - Identify, design, and implement automation solutions and process improvements to enhance speed, accuracy, and insightfulness of planning and forecasting outputs - Role model the adoption and optimization of planning and forecasting tools to enable modern, agile finance processes - Drive and embed changes towards more efficient, technology-enabled, and forward-looking planning processes Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline; MBA or professional finance qualification (CFA, CPA, CIMA) preferred - 10+ years of experience in FP&A, including deep involvement in planning and forecasting in complex, global organizations - Proven track record of managing and developing high-performing teams to deliver accurate and insightful outputs efficiently - Strong technical proficiency in planning systems and data visualization tools - Demonstrated ability to drive process automation and technology-enabled improvements in finance - Exceptional attention to detail, analytical rigor, and commitment to high standards - Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate financial data into clear insights and influence senior stakeholders - Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight deadlines,